Shelley E. Huguley
Cattle raised at Stiles Farm Foundation. Cattle feeding tips for small producers will highlight several topics and crop tours featured at the Stiles Farm Field Day, June 15 in Thrall. Practices to enhance beef for small producers, consumers to be provided
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Jun 15, 2021 to Jun 17, 2021
Cattle feeding tips for small producers will highlight several topics and crop tours featured at the Stiles Farm Field Day June 15 in Thrall.
“We are excited about this year’s field day and moving to a late afternoon-evening format, allowing more producers to attend and take part in the program,” said Ryan Collett, farm manager, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service. “This year’s field tour will not only include agronomic lessons learned, but also a discussion on smaller-scale feeding. We are continuing to see the niche market of direct beef purchases from the farm, and this presentation will give beef producers a clear unders
Jason Ott, Texas A&M AgriLife
A May 11-workshop, offered in-person and virtually, is to provide insight into the carbon economy and how producers can possibly benefit. Carbon Farming in Texas, workshop scheduled for May 11.
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Aug 31, 2021 to Sep 02, 2021
A workshop, Carbon Farming in Texas, will be presented May 11 in Robstown by the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service.
The objective of the free event is to provide growers with insight into what is bringing about interest in carbon farming and identify current opportunities in carbon markets, as well as discuss practices that should be feasible in the Coastal Bend area.
Shelley E. Huguley Texas Crop and Weather Report – April 27, 2021
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Jun 15, 2021 to Jun 17, 2021
Sorghum acres are expected to be up this year as prices and increased export demand have made the crop a hot commodity, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service expert.
Ronnie Schnell, AgriLife Extension agronomist, Bryan-College Station, said sorghum producers could be in for a good year with timely rains.
About half of the state’s sorghum is planted at this point, Schnell said. Plantings in the Rio Grande Valley were at boot stage if not flowering already and areas along the Gulf Coast and Central Texas were progressing well.
Spring has sprung and if you re planting sorghum, it s time to select a preplant herbicide. As most sorghum producers know, we have fewer herbicide options in grain sorghum than cotton and corn, says Agronomist Jourdan Bell, Texas AgriLife Extension, Bushland. Most sorghum producers I work with depend heavily on atrazine and metolachlor herbicides, but our research at Bushland has evaluated other herbicide chemistry for sorghum.
Agronomist Jourdan Bell, Texas AgriLife Extension, Bushland (
Photo by Shelley E. Huguley)
In the Bushland trials, herbicides that contain mesotrione, such as Coyote, Lexar, Lumax and Halex GT, provide added control, especially in fields with heavy residue, Bell says. We ve seen those to be very effective, although they can be pricier than metolachlor and atrazine plus metolachlor options.
The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service is partnering with the Texas Grain Sorghum Association to provide two series of regional updates for Texas sorghum farmers utilizing an online format.
The effort is led by AgriLife Extension agronomists Calvin Trostle, Lubbock, and Ronnie Schnell, Bryan-College Station, both in the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences.
Schnell said they are dividing Texas in two regional updates so each can be tailored to the needs of each region s sorghum growers.
“Grain sorghum in South Texas, if it survived the freeze, or was planted right afterwards, is a month or more old,” Schnell said. “Most sorghum has already been planted as well in Central Texas.”